AWS Global Outage
Amazon Web Services (AWS), a cloud computing platform, has suffered a global outage affecting its users.
According to the AWS Health Dashboard, the company is investigating increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS services in the US-EAST-1 region.
"We are actively engaged and working to both mitigate the issue and understand the root cause."
A later update confirmed significant error rates for requests made to the DynamoDB endpoint in the US-EAST-1 region, affecting other AWS services as well.
During this time, customers may be unable to create or update support cases, but engineers are working to mitigate the issue and understand its root cause.
Author's summary: AWS faces global outage affecting users.